How you should be using Instagram automation

There are lots of social media automation tools available around and depending on your specific needs, you may have to evaluate the features of each one to see how it fits into your marketing strategy.

I also suggest taking advantage of trial subscriptions as you can use these as learning opportunities to further your marketing technology skills.

Choose the number of additional likes or video views for every new post, press Start and you’re good to go! They automatically track your new publications adding new, cheap Instagram likes or video views to them.

Moreover, you can buy followers too(not recommended) but in this case you will be getting new or automatic Instagram likes from your followers. So even the most meticulous analysis will show that the activity is real.

This is not just an Instagram automation tool, but a complete social media marketing application. This lets you manage all your accounts for most of the major social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, Pinterest, and Youtube.

Gets You Traffic, Leads, And Sales from social media, unlike any other tool I’ve seen that still allowed to operate.

FollowingLike is a powerful program to run thousands of social network accounts(Facebook, Instagram, Google+, Linkedin and Pinterest) at the same time 24/7.

You can auto-follow, unfollow, follow back, like, unlike, post, pin, comment, share, add friends and send messages. You can combine basic function modules to any complex tasks and execute any job you want automatically. It can simulate human operation to avoid your account to get suspended.

Hootsuite – This is a great tool to manage and schedule your Instagram posts. You can integrate and manage multiple Instagram accounts in one dashboard.

It’s more of a workflow automation tool rather than a bot.

Hootsuite Automation Features

Hootsuite is a popular tool to manage, monitor and schedule social media activity. All this can be done not only on Instagram but also other networks such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more. You need to have Instagram app and HootSuite mobile app to publish the scheduled post.

Archie.co can automate your Instagram and Twitter social media accounts. Automatically like, comment and follow accounts that are relevant to your interests and boost your online presence. I takes care of posting in a natural pace so you don’t act like a bot.

Follow.Social is another simple tool for Instagram automation. You can add one or more Instagram accounts, enter profiles, locations and hashtags related to your business. Let Follow find the right followers. Track your profile growth, monitor numbers and quality and change your followers sources at any time.

Follow.Social Automation Features

Automate likes – Liking is one of the best ways to promote engagement. With Follow, you can set up filters to like posts automatically.

Interact by geolocation – You can like posts and follow users from a certain location. Choose a city, a neighborhood or any specific venue. Find followers that are close to you.

Set up an automation schedule – Choose when your automation will be running. E.g.: you may want to interact with your followers only during business hours.

Later is great for planning, managing, and scheduling your visual social media posts and marketing campaigns. It let you upload individual images and schedule them but doesn’t take care of posting them. You will get a reminder from Later on the schedule time and you can post it by logging in to Instagram.

Gettakeoff is developed by Crowfire, a social media management tool that works great for managing Twitter and Instagram accounts. It works to automatically schedule your instagram posts for times when they see most engaged followers.

Viraltag is not just Instagram, You can use it with Pinterest, Tumbler, Facebook and other social networks. Viraltag lets you schedule your posts on Instagram and all other networks. You can also customize your Instagram posts according to brands using Viraltag.

The Intragrate app works well with WordPress sites. It’s a WordPress plugin that automatically publish images and videos created on Instagram. It would pick the name along with image posted and will publish on WordPress like a new post.

Autogrammer is similar to Schedugram who does not just schedule and remind you of posting at the schedule time, but also takes care of publishing them. You can upload, edit and schedule posts and manage multiple Instagram account at once.

Massplanner is not only takes care of Instagram scheduling but also helps to automate Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest. Kindly note that Massplanner is Window based software and requires Windows running computer to work.

I’m going to state this again…People hate bots and spam.

Before you use any automation tool you must remember; If you use automation in a way that makes you look like a robot, it will have detrimental effects on your audiences perception of you. This is a fine line to walk and one that you have to keep top of mind when automating your marketing or social media activity. It’s also important to note that Instagram does not allow posting from third party apps and if they suspect you are using automation, you could lose access to your account.

Remember Instagram does not allow posting from third party apps but these tools can really help you save time and get more done.